Svetlana Skurtveit

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Avdeling for kroniske sykdommer

Folkehelseinstituttet

Senter for rus- og avhengighetsforskning (SERAF)

Universitetet i Oslo

Forfatterbidrag: idé, utforming av prosjektet, fortolkning og analyse av data, revisjon av manus og godkjenning av endelig versjon.

Svetlana Skurtveit er seniorforsker og professor.

Articles by Svetlana Skurtveit

Persistent use of high-dose opioids and other addictive medications

Line Pedersen,
Petter C. Borchgrevink,
Svetlana Skurtveit

24.04.2025: Use of opioids for non-cancer-related chronic pain conditions is generally not recommended due to the risk of addiction, overdose and other serious side effects (1). The risk of overdose increases for persistent use of opioids, increasing daily doses and concurrent use of other central nervous...

Tourette syndrome in children in Norway

Pål Surén,
Inger Johanne Landsjøåsen Bakken,
Svetlana Skurtveit,
Marte Handal,
Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud,
Camilla Stoltenberg,
Liv Irene Nøstvik,
Bernhard Weidle

12.11.2019: Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological condition that first appears in childhood and is characterised by motor and vocal tics (1). Tics are involuntary, rapid, repetitive, intermittent motor movements or sudden, uncontrolled vocal sounds. Tics often occur in children and are normally transient...

Reimbursement of analgesics for chronic pain

Line Pedersen,
Anneli Borge Hansen,
Kristian Svendsen,
Svetlana Skurtveit,
Petter C. Borchgrevink,
Olav Magnus S. Fredheim

27.11.2012: Several epidemiological studies show that the prevalence of chronic pain in Norway is approximately 24 – 30 % and that only a minority of these cases are reported to be cancer-related (1) – (3). In a Norwegian telephone interview study, 14 other European countries and Israel reported that around...